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Spitzenberg|ˈspɪtsənbɜːg|
Also spitzenberg, Spitzenbergh, Spitzenburg.
[Origin unkn.; cf. quot. 1795.]
An apple with a red and yellow skin, belonging to the North American variety so called, developed from a seedling first found at Esopus, N.Y.; also, the tree bearing this fruit.
1795J. Jay Let. 12 Dec. in Columbia Library Columns (1970) XIX. 43 Ten are what we call Spitzenberghs, from the Name of the Man in whose orchard the first tree of the kind was found. 1809‘D. Knickerbocker’ Hist. N.Y. I. iii. i. 122 Mottled and streaked with dusty red, like a spitzenberg apple. a1817T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. (1821) I. 45 The varieties of apple-trees are:..Spitzenberg, Holden Sweeting, Fall pippin. 1869Rep. Comm. Agric. 1868 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 482 [He] names the Baldwin for dessert and cooking, the Spitzenburg for cooking. 1894H. Frederic Copperhead 71 He..picked out another apple—a spitzenberg this time. 1921Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 8 Oct. 19/1 (Advt.), 320 Boxes of Apples..from our own ranch..Spitzenberg at $3.23. 1949J. B. Herrick Memories 5 Father laid in..a barrel each of Spitzenburgs and Baldwins. |